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you ought to have done

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  • ought to have (done something) — phrase used when you realize that someone did not do the right thing in the past You ought to have listened to the warnings. I know I ought not to have taken the money. Thesaurus: modal verbshyponym Main entry: ought …   Useful english dictionary

  • ought — modal verb 1 used to say that someone should do something because it is the best or most sensible thing to do: ought to do sth: I think you ought to make more time for yourself to relax. | What you ought to have done is called the police. | If… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • ought — [ ɔt ] modal verb *** Ought is usually followed by to and an infinitive: You ought to tell the truth. Sometimes it is used without to or a following infinitive in a formal way: I don t practice as often as I ought. It is also used in an informal… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • ought */*/*/ — UK [ɔːt] / US [ɔt] modal verb Summary: Ought is usually followed by to and an infinitive: You ought to tell the truth. Sometimes it is used without to or a following infinitive in a formal way: I don t practise as often as I ought. It is also… …   English dictionary

  • OUGHT — 1. v.aux. (usu. foll. by to + infin.; present and past indicated by the following infin.) 1 expressing duty or rightness (we ought to love our neighbours). 2 expressing shortcoming (it ought to have been done long ago). 3 expressing advisability… …   Useful english dictionary

  • have — /hav/; unstressed /heuhv, euhv/; for 26 usually /haf/, v. and auxiliary v., pres. sing. 1st pers. have, 2nd have or (Archaic) hast, 3rd has or (Archaic) hath, pres. pl …   Universalium

  • Is–ought problem — David Hume raised the is ought problem in his Treatise of Human Nature The is–ought problem in meta ethics as articulated by Scottish philosopher and historian, David Hume (1711–1776), is that many writers make claims about what ought to be on… …   Wikipedia

  • didn't ought — may be the result of a collision of the strange behaviour patterns of two modal verbs, do and ought, but its origins are in dialect and it features in literature only as a (sometimes stereotypical) representation of rustic or poorly educated… …   Modern English usage

  • Memoir — For other uses, see Memoir (disambiguation). A memoir (from French: mémoire / Latin: memoria, meaning memory, or reminiscence), is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms memoir and autobiography are almost… …   Wikipedia

  • Hypocrisy — • The pretension to qualities which one does not possess, or, more cognately to the scope of this article, the putting forward of a false appearance of virtue or religion Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hypocrisy     Hypocrisy …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • memoirs — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. autobiography, biography, diary, life story, reminiscences, recollections, journal, chronicle, history, *bio. When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do. Will… …   English dictionary for students

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